Radiator



Filed Aug. 26, 1936 i I III In, [HIM] NI h, 23 l ul I A I '2 Sheets-Sheet 1 26, 1939- F. M; mm 658 RADIATOR Filed Aug. 26, 1936 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 .Patented Dec. 26, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,184,658 namn'ron Fred M. Young, Racine, Wis.

Application August 26. 1936. Serial No. 97,964

i 2 Claims. (01. 251-130) The present invention relates principally to radiators commonly used as car heaters and the like and has for its objects a simple eflicient device which may be manufactured at low cost.

One of the difliculties in manufacturing cores of the class is caused by the frail nature of the material used and the necessity for bonding the multiplicity of parts together so as to provide a gas or water tight structure.

I accomplish the desired results by means of novel tube plates and novel sheets of solder or bonding material as will hereinafter appear.-

To these and other useful ends my invention consists of parts and combinations thereof or their equivalents as herein described and claimed and shown in the accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a rear elevation of the preferred form of my invention.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the device as shown in Figure 1.

Fig. 3 is a top view of the device.

Fig. 4 is a fractional transverse section of the device taken on line 4-4 of Figure 3.

Fig. 5 is a fractional section taken on'line 55 of Figure 3.

Fig. 6 illustrates a shaped piece of wire solder as used for. bonding the header cap to the tube plate. p

Fig. 7 is a front elevation of the double core before being separated, preparatory to securing the tube plates to the tube ends.

Fig. 8 is a fractional. top view of the fin from which the assembly shown in Figure '7 is made.

Fig. 9 is a section taken on line 9-9 of Figure Fig. 10 is a fractional top view of the tube plate showing the ends of the tubes as positioned in the flanged openings.

As thus illustrated the present invention comprises a primary core (see Figure '7) which in its entirety is designated by reference character A. This core comprises preferably flattened tubes l0 having thereon a multiplicity of closely spaced fins II through which the tubes extend, the practice being to provide flanged openings for the reception of the tubes. These flanges are pointed out by-numeral l2 in the various draw- 'ings. At the longitudinal centerof fin II as shown in Figure 8, the material is out free transversely as at l3, leaving intact narrow portions l4'l l. After core A has been formed as illustrated in Figure '7 and the assembly passed through a heating oven for the purpose of bond- 65 ins fin flanges l2 to the tubes, portions I are tween the tubes as at Mia and projecting on opposite sides from flanges H. The purpose of these depressions will be hereinafter explained. Plates I6 are provided with flanges l9 which ex- 15 tend inthe same direction as flanges I1.

I provide header caps 23 having outer flanges T 24 which flt snugly within flanges 19, having inwardly turning sides as at 25, forming y shaped channels 26 for the reception of shaped bonding 20 wires 21 as illustrated in Figure 3. Formed portions 28 are provided into which inlet and outlet tubes 29 are suitably secured. Header caps 23 are positioned on their respective tube plates whereby tubes 29 are positioned on opposite 2 comers of the unit. I provide suitable flanged openings in header caps 23, for the reception of flanged sleeve 30 having a suitable pipe threaded opening as illustrated. Generally, however, the top header is supplied with a valve in this open- 0 ing suitable for conveniently permitting the escape of air, the other opening being closed by means of a pipe plug.

I provide member 3| which is formed exactly like a half of member less the flanges. This 35 member is made from solder or a. suitable bonding material and is positioned on the tube ends as indicated in Figures 4 and 5. The tube plate is then positioned on the tube ends, acid is then applied and the bottom of'the assembly'sub- 40 iected to heat in a suitable manner so as to melt member 3| which is then directed around the tubes at the bottom of channels I 8 whence it will flow between the tube ends and their flanges making a suitable bonded 'joint therebetween. 45 The ends of the unit are then reversed and bonded in like manner.

The header caps 23 are now placed on the tube plates as illustrated in Figures 1 to 3 inclusive, and the cap at the top of the unit bonded 50 as follows: first the wire solder member 21 shown in Figure 6, is laid in groove 26, as illustrated in Figure 3 and acid and heat applied, melting the wire solder which flows down and between flanges l9 and 24, (arming a sealed joint,

bonded. Thus it will be seen that the radiator may be assembled and bonded in consecutive order and in a most-efiective and economical manner.

I provide two angle bar members 33 having a wide and a narrowlip which are formed at their ends as illustrated, the wide lips at their ends contacting and being bonded to flanges l9 as illustrated, leaving the narrow portion flush with tected without materially restricting the flow .ofv

air through the core.

" 16: Clearly bonding strip 3| may be dispensed with and the end dipped into molten bonding material the channels acting to direct the molten material around the tubes and .cause it to form a small flllet at the bottom of the channel. l Having thus shown and described my invention I claim: a

1. A radiator core of the class described, comprising a number of tubes and a multiplicity of spaced fins through which said tubes extend, tube plates having outwardly extending flanges for the reception of header caps, the tube openings the other end is then turned up and similarly in said plates being outwardly flanged and each being surrounded on the opposite side from said flanges, by a depression formed by shallow inverted V shaped surfaces the apexes of which are midway said flanges, said tubes being bonded to said flanged openings by placing a thin plate of bonding. material shaped similar to said flns less the flanges, and positioned on the tube ends ahead of said tube plates and turning the plate end to be bonded down and applying heat whereby said bonding plate is made molten and caused to flow between the tube ends and their flanges.

2. A radiator core of the class described, comprising a number of tubes and a multiplicity of,

spaced fins through which said tubes extend being bonded thereto, tube plates having outwardly extending flanges for the reception of header caps, the tube openings in said plates being outwardly flanged and each being 'surrounded on the opposite side from said flanges by a depression formed by inverted V shaped surfaces the apexes of which intersect and surround said flanges, said tube ends and tube plate flanges being bonded together by applying heat and bonding material in said depressions.

FRED M. YOUNG. 

